Joe Biden, N.F.L. Draft, ‘Avengers: Endgame’: Your Friday Briefing

We’re protecting the newest information from Sri Lanka, a cellphone name between Joe Biden and Anita Hill, and the first-round outcomes of the N.F.L. draft.

Sri Lanka’s chief blames safety officers

President Maithripala Sirisena stated at the moment that he had not been warned of terrorist threats and that Sri Lanka’s safety equipment can be present process a “whole reorganization.” Mr. Sirisena, who can also be the protection minister, has confronted intense criticism because the suicide bombings throughout the nation on Sunday.

Japan initially insisted that the U.S. return to the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Mr. Trump deserted two years in the past. However considerations about North Korea and China have helped restart negotiations.

Yesterday: Mr. Trump stated that China’s president, Xi Jinping, would go to the White Home quickly, fueling anticipation of a commerce deal.

Anita Hill isn’t glad by Joe Biden’s remorse

On Thursday, the day Mr. Biden introduced his run for the White Home, his marketing campaign revealed that he had lately known as Ms. Hill to share “his remorse for what she endured” 28 years in the past after she accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment throughout his Supreme Court docket affirmation hearings.

Mr. Biden, then a senator from Delaware, presided over the hearings as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Ms. Hill and others have faulted him for refusing to significantly examine her accusations or to take public testimony from different potential witnesses.

Ms. Hill is now a professor at Brandeis College. In an interview with The Instances, she stated she didn’t think about Mr. Biden’s name an apology. “I can’t be glad by merely saying, ‘I’m sorry for what occurred to you,’” she stated. “I will likely be glad after I know there’s actual change and actual accountability and actual function.”

San Francisco learns a tough lesson on integration

For many years, the mantra in training has been that ZIP code shouldn’t decide faculty high quality. Few cities have pushed more durable to make that preferrred a actuality than San Francisco.

The town lets dad and mom apply to any elementary faculty within the district, having achieved away with conventional faculty zoning in an effort to desegregate lecture rooms. However what was as soon as seen as a nationwide mannequin hasn’t labored as supposed.

Quotable: “Our present system is damaged,” stated Stevon Prepare dinner, president of the district Board of Schooling, which, late final yr, handed a decision to overtake the method. “We’ve inadvertently made the colleges extra segregated.”

When you’ve got 23 minutes, that is price it

Australia goes to conflict on feral cats

Feral cats are formally deemed an invasive pest in Australia, and they’re driving the nation’s native species to extinction — notably threatened rodents and marsupials.

The federal government’s response has been to attempt to kill two million cats by 2020. Strategies embrace dropping poisoned sausages from planes.

Right here’s what else is occurring

Invalid voting maps: A panel of federal judges dominated on Thursday that 34 districts in Michigan are excessive partisan gerrymanders and unconstitutional.

New cyclone hits Africa: The storm, Cyclone Kenneth, has made landfall in Mozambique and different international locations, simply over a month after Cyclone Idai killed greater than 1,000 folks and displaced tens of millions within the area.

L practice slowdown: Beginning tonight, the road’s tunnel between Brooklyn and Manhattan is partly closing on nights and weekends. Right here’s what to anticipate.

Invoice for captive: North Korea demanded $2 million for the medical care of Otto Warmbier, an American scholar who fell right into a coma whereas being detained and died days after his launch. It’s unclear whether or not the Trump administration complied.

Uber’s I.P.O.: The ride-hailing firm stated at the moment that it’s aiming to be valued at as a lot as $91 billion in its preliminary public providing subsequent month, making it one of many largest choices within the historical past of the know-how trade.

Snapshot: Above, the Arizona Cardinals took Oklahoma’s quarterback Kyler Murray with the primary decide of the N.F.L. draft on Thursday. We analyzed all 32 first-round choices.

In memoriam: John Havlicek, one of many biggest clutch stars in N.B.A. historical past, received eight championships with the Boston Celtics within the 1960s and ’70s. He died on Thursday at 79.

Information quiz: Did you comply with the headlines this week? Take a look at your self.

Trendy Love: On this week’s column, a person reassesses what he needs after two girlfriends broke up with him by popping out.

Late-night comedy: The hosts had enjoyable with Joe Biden’s marketing campaign announcement. Trevor Noah was incredulous that Mr. Biden’s run in 1988 was lower brief by an accusation of plagiarism: “That was a scandal?”

What we’re studying: This text in Mosaic from 2016.Anna Holland, an editor in London, writes: “This piece on suicide charges amongst younger folks in Northern Eire is how I first realized of Lyra McKee, who devoted her journalism profession to protecting the lasting trauma of the Troubles. She was killed final week doing simply that, at solely 29.”

Now, a break from the information

Watch: “Avengers: Endgame” arrives in theaters at the moment. Captain America, the Hulk, Iron Man, Thor and different stars settle scores and take an extended victory lap within the remaining chapter of this cycle.

Learn: 4 memoirs and one near-memoir are amongst 11 new books we suggest.

Smarter Residing: Not all plastic is created equal. Ever discover these recycling symbols with the numbers inside? The numbers determine the kind of plastic you’re taking a look at, and relying on the place you reside, they could point out that it isn’t recyclable.

And listed below are kitchen instruments that can assist you reduce meals waste and maximize financial savings.

And now for the Again Story on …

The bard of the feedback part

April is Nationwide Poetry Month. So we thought we’d have a look at a distinct sort of poet: Larry Eisenberg, a prolific commenter on nytimes.com who posted in verse, largely limericks.

With greater than 13,000 feedback, starting in 2008, Mr. Eisenberg grew to become a cult determine. A former editorial web page director known as him “the closest factor this paper has to a poet in residence.”

Mr. Eisenberg was a biomedical electrical engineer by day who wrote science fiction (and limericks) by night time. He died in December at 99.

He turned a decade of stories into poetry, from the doings of President Barack Obama and President Trump to sports activities to TV critiques. In 2011, he took on the subject of social media:

Was there no Life earlier than there was Twitter?Was it stodgy, lackluster or bitter?I discover Life too fleetingTo spend time in Tweeting,I’m a face-to-face sort of a critter!

That’s it for this briefing. See you subsequent time.

— Chris

ThanksTo Mark Josephson, Eleanor Stanford and Kenneth R. Rosen for the break from the information. Remy Tumin, on the Briefings group,wrote at the moment’s Again Story. You possibly can attain the group at briefing@nytimes.com.

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